Avi Loeb, pictured here in 2017, ... “Sometimes the soldier needs to put his body on the barbed wire so that others would pass through,” he says.

Professor Avi Loeb — famous for his 2017 stance that the bizarre interstellar object ʻOumuamua ... they turned up a number of metallic wire-like fragments and shards of metal with unusual ...

Dr. Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, is one of the world’s leading experts on black holes, spacetime structures, and the search for extraterrestrial life.

News This Israeli scientist is searching for aliens – and he takes his job very seriously Harvard’s Avi Loeb is leading a $100 million project called the Breakthrough Listen Initiative.

When the first sign of intelligent life visits us from space, it won’t be a giant saucer hovering over New York. More likely, it will be an alien civilization’s trash. Avi Loeb, chair of ...

Harvard astronomy professor Avi Loeb’s highly anticipated new book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,” is being published Jan. 26, detailing his ...

Avi Loeb with the 15-inch telescope known as "The Great Refractor," which was installed at Harvard in 1847. Lane Turner/Globe Staff/Globe Staff ...

Avi Loeb’s single-minded search for extraterrestrial life has made him the most famous practicing astronomer in the country — and possibly the most controversial.

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb thinks alien technology could be on the ocean floor. And if he finds anything with buttons on it, he would very much like to press those buttons.

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, says that material recovered from the seafloor could be from an extraterrestrial spacecraft. His peers are skeptical. By Katrina Miller On Jan. 8, 2014, a ...